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Danielle Galligan (born 1 December 1992) is an Irish actress, theatre maker, and poet.

Danielle Galligan
Galligan in 2021
Born	(1992-12-01) 1 December 1992 (age 29) Dublin, Ireland
Alma mater	The Lir Academy
Occupation	Actress, theatre maker
Years active	2015–present

Early life and education

Galligan is from Rathfarnham, a suburb in South Dublin.[1][2] Her mother, Lorraine is a beauty therapist who runs a salon and beauty school Galligan Beauty.[3] Danielle was raised Catholic but now considers herself agnostic.

Galligan attended Loreto High School Beaufort. She was a member of Ann Kavanagh's Young People's Theatre from 2005 to 2011 and was awarded the Ena Burke bursary for the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School.[4] She then studied Drama and Theatre studies at Trinity College Dublin and trained in Acting at The Lir Academy, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2015.[5][6]

Career

Theatre

After graduating from The Lir, Galligan began her career in stage productions such as The Train with the Rough Magic Theatre Company.[7] In 2017, she was in All Honey and played the titular role in The Grimm Tale of Cinderella.[7][8]

In 2018, Galligan played the lead opposite Tom Moran in his play Lyrics[9] and Cinnamon in We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House at the New Theatre. She reprised the latter role at the 2019 Young Curators Festival.[7][10] She featured as the singer in Gavin Kostick's 12 Christmas Poems that December.[11][12]

Theatre making

Galligan had a FUEL theatre making residency and workshop alongside Fionnuala Gygax and Ailish Leavy for Hostel 16 at the Druid Theatre.[13]

In 2018, she co-founded Chaos Factory, an experimental theatre company alongside Gygax, Venetia Bowe, and Rachel Bergin. They debuted with a production titled Kiss Kiss Slap, which featured in the 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival.[14][15] Their second project, MorphMe, premiered in April 2019.[16]

That same year, Galligan began working as an actor-deviser for Murmuration,[17] which debuted with Summertime starring her and Finbarr Doyle. The show featured at the 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival, where the pair were shortlisted for Best Duo,[18] as well as the 2019 Drogheda Arts Festival and Abbey Theatre Young Curators Festival.[19]

She was the dramaturg for Aisling O'Mara's Nothing But A Toerag in January 2019.[20]

Galligan participated in a podcast with RISE Productions in which she, Gavin Kostick, Eanna Hardwicke, and Janet Moran performed Kostick's modern version of Homer's Odyssey.[21] Galligan and Kostick, having worked on the project since 2017, co-created and performed in Gym Swim Party, a choreography production inspired by his take on the epic in association with O'Reilly Theatre.[22] The production featured in the 2019 Dublin Fringe Festival.[11][23]

Television and film

In her early career, Galligan featured in short films such as Strangers in the Park, Pernicio, Beautiful Youth, and Break Us.[24][25] She won best actress at the Short+Sweet Film Festival and best duo alongside Mark Lawrence at the 6 on Nebraska Film Festival for Strangers in the Park, which she co-wrote.[26] She received nominations from the Richard Harris Film Festival and the Underground Cinema Festival for her role in Pernicio.[4]

Galligan made her television debut in 2019 with guest roles in Game of Thrones and Krypton.[27] She landed her first major television role as Nina Zenik in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of fantasy book series The Grisha Trilogy and the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo, which premiered in 2021.[28] Galligan made her feature film debut as Naomi in Who We Love, a remake of the 2016 short film Lily.[29]

Other media

Galligan has participated in RTÉ radio dramas such as The Playboy of the Western World and Hecuba by Marina Carr.[30][31]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Closing Time	The Wretched Girl	Short film
2017	Strangers in the Park	Aisling	Short film; co-wrote
2018	Pernicio	Sam Thomson	Short film
	Beautiful Youth	Lili	Short film
	Tomorrow	Eilish	Short film
2019	Break Us	Sophie	Short film
2020	We Don't Choose How	Jenny	Short film
2021	Who We Love	Naomi
2022	Lakelands	Grace

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	Game of Thrones	Sarra	Episode: "The Last of the Starks"
	Krypton	Enaj	2 episodes
2020	Cold Courage	Daiga Mednis	2 episodes
2021–present	Shadow and Bone	Nina Zenik	Recurring role (season 1) Main role (seasons 2–)
2021	Kin	Pharmacist	1 episode
	The Great	Yula	3 episodes
2022	Every Five Miles	Saoirse Kennedy	Television film

Music videos

Song	Year	Artist	Notes
"You and Me"	2017	DAVIIS
"Can You Feel It"	2018	Yellow Season

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	The Train	Bella	Lime Tree Theatre; Dublin Theatre Festival, Project Arts Centre; Abbey Theatre
2016	Hostel 16	Danielle	Druid Theatre; Smock Alley Theatre
	Cascando	Auditor	Samuel Beckett Theatre
	Beyond Barricades	Helena / Christina / Nora / Julia	Anu Productions; 1916 Bus Tour, Dublin
2017	The Heiress	Maria	Gate Theatre
	All Honey	Ru	New Theatre; Dublin Fringe Festival, Bewley's
	The Grimm Tale of Cinderella	Ella / The Old Woman	Smock Alley Theatre
2018	Lyrics	Her	Theatre Upstairs, Eden Quay
	Kiss Kiss Slap		Dublin Fringe Festival, Smock Alley Theatre; Mermaid Arts Centre Co-created
	12 Christmas Poems	The Songstress	Peacock Theatre
2018–2019	Summertime	Stash	Dublin Fringe Festival, Peacock Theatre; Drogheda Arts Festival Co-created
	We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House	Cinnamon	New Theatre; Young Curators Festival
2019	Nothing But A Toerag	—	Dramaturg
	The Playboy Riot!	Molly Allgood	24 Hour Plays, Abbey Theatre
	MorphMe		Co-created
	Gym Swim Party	Clem	Dublin Fringe Festival, O'Reilly Theatre Co-created
2020	Will I See You There	—	Dublin Fringe Festival Co-deviser
2022	Good Sex		Dublin Theatre Festival[32]

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	The Playboy of the Western World	Susan Brady	RTÉ Drama
2018	Hecuba	Polyxena	RTÉ Drama
2019	The Odyssey: A New Version	Various roles	Irish Theatre Podcast

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2018	Richard Harris Film Festival	Best Actress	Pernicio	Nominated
	Underground Cinema Festival	Best Actress		Nominated
	Dublin Fringe Festival	Judge's Choice: Best Duo	Summertime	Nominated	[lower-alpha 1]
2019	Short+Sweet Film Festival	Best Actress	Strangers in the Park	Won
	6 on Nebraska Film Festival	Best Acting Duo		Won	[lower-alpha 2]
2022	Galway Film Fleadh	Bingham Ray New Talent Award	Lakelands	Won	[lower-alpha 3][33]

Notes

References

External links

• Danielle Galligan at IMDb

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[de] Danielle Galligan

Danielle „Dani“ Galligan (* 1. Dezember 1992 in Dublin als Danielle Ghouligan) ist eine irische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Danielle Galligan

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